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To reduce stress – listen to music!

17 Monday Feb 2020

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While classical music has a particularly soothing effect – it slows heart rate, lowers blood pressure and even decreases levels of stress hormones – ANY music that you love will flood your brain with feel-good neurochemicals like dopamine.

And music is particularly beneficial if you’re in the middle of a stressful event. If you don’t have access to music, make your own. A study on stressed-out nursing students found that singing relieved their stress and prevented burnout.

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Are you thinking of trying high-intensity interval training?

04 Tuesday Feb 2020

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If you’re thinking of trying high-intensity interval training, like Cross Fit or Orange Theory, be sure to listen to pumped-up workout music. You’ll enjoy it more! The University of British Columbia had exercisers new to interval training work out either WITH music – or without. The result: Those exercising with music enjoyed it more and were more likely to try it again, than those working out in silence. That meshes with previous research showing music can make exercise feel easier. So if you’re trying interval training to shape up in the New Year, be sure to include a great playlist. You’ll be more likely to stick with it.

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Listen to music as you workout!

29 Friday Dec 2017

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Which is better: Working out to the same songs on repeat – or switching it up and exercising to random music? Go ahead and hit repeat. Working out to music is good no matter what – it helps us exercise longer and harder without feeling the additional effort. But when we listen to songs we know we like, we get an extra mood boost. That’s according to the book “Inside Sport Psychology.” But when we listen to unfamiliar songs, our brain gets distracted trying to figure out the music and lyrics – and, as a result, our exercise efficiency is reduced. So put your workout playlist on repeat – and discover new music another time.

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Dance your way to happy!

11 Monday Dec 2017

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If you’d like to boost your mood, get up and dance! Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK found that people who danced for 5 minutes felt 16% happier than they did before the experiment started. The experts say it’s the combination of movement and music that triggers the release of feel-good endorphins.

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What’ll make you a safer driver?

10 Tuesday Oct 2017

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Sing while you’re behind the wheel! A recent survey from the UK’s University of Sheffield found that 63% of drivers who haven’t had an accident in more than four years listen to music while driving. And drivers who practice carpool karaoke are much less likely to experience road rage. Because music is soothing, calming and relaxing. And singing along to your favorite tunes – when you don’t have to try to remember the words – helps you better focus on the road.

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Listen to music when you run!

31 Tuesday Jan 2017

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You don’t have to go all out, on every run. In fact, you should take it easy on 4-out-of-5 runs. That means, being able to sing along with your workout playlist between breaths…… Then, for the fifth run, push yourself to the point that you can’t sing. According to the book “80/20 Running,” that’ll help you get faster and fitter, and avoid burning out. Because low intensity runs burn more fat – while high intensity ones burn more calories overall.

If you’re in pain, listening to music can help!

17 Wednesday Aug 2016

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A study at the University of Utah measured the effect of music on pain perception – while people were having their fingertips jolted by electricity. And the more people became absorbed in the music, the less pain they felt.

For the best workout, match your iPod playlist to your heartbeat.

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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That’ll help you stay in the zone and exercise longer. It’ll also help you feel like you’re not working as hard – and makes you more coordinated, because you’ll be inclined to match your movement to the beat. The perfect songs will be between 120 and 140 beats per minute – so things like Rihanna’s “Umbrella”, or “Dancing Queen” by Abba.

How to protect your hearing.

19 Tuesday Aug 2014

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If you want to save your hearing, stay away from ear buds. When people listen to music using ear buds, they turn it up too high in an attempt to drown out outside noise. But ear doctors say our ear isn’t made to listen to music as loudly or as long as we do these days. So instead, get a pair of headphones that blocks ambient noise and listen to music at a lower volume.